Tennessee medical marijuana bill stalled for another week

7:30 PM,
Mar. 19, 2014

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On Tuesday, an expected vote by the Tennessee House health subcommittee in Nashville on the Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act (House Bill 1385) failed to happen, and the issue was pushed back another week.

The subject of medical marijuana came at the end of the subcommittee's session on Tuesday, occupying the last half-hour. The bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Sherry Jones (D-Nashville), began by introducing a proposed amendment with an overview that included a reworked definition of cannabis, a proposal that cannabis dispensaries be housed in places not visible or accessible to the ...